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I enjoyed playing Ports of Call. You needed to ship stuff from A to B - needless to say that lots of decisions had to be made, including rescuing cast-aways, shipping weapons illegally yes or no, what kind of ships to buy, etc. etc.

I really enjoyed the two Ultima underworld games. I played them on a 386 which couldn't really handle them, I remeber that nothing could jump out and surprise you because whenever the game tried you could hear the harddirve buzzing and you knew to expect what was coming.

Also remember a game called Reunion, it came on something like 8 floppies and took ages to install.

Oh and finally, the grand-daddy of all RTS's; Dune 2, loved that game.

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Super Breakout in progressive mode is still one of my favs (game #7)I am also prone to serious addictions to Ms Pacman.

My all-time fav to play with a group of people is Activision's Decathalon.It might have something to do with the particular joystick I own.It's a deluxe one that is meant to be very loose and it's much faster to move in the game if you hold it in one hand and just shake it as fast as you can rather than moving it back & forth like a normal joystick. This kind of looks 'suggestive' when you see someone else do it. A lot of laughs watching people shake that stick.

My first game was "Human Race" by Mastertronic on a C-64 tape. The music, done by Rob Hubbard, was the best part of the game. (Click here if you have interest. I like track 4 most.

There were some great games on this system... Boulder Dash, Wizball, Paradroid, Last Ninja, World Games, and, and and... If I would have to choose the most favorite game, it would be a tie between "Maniac Mansion" and "Defender of the Crown". It's incredible these games could be played on a system with 64 KB memory... Java games for cell phones are larger than that!

Here's one that no one has probably heard of- "Vangers One for the Road". I really enjoyed that game, I must say I was a bit disappointed when a google for it just now turned up this review;

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Confusing. Off-putting. Indecipherable. Mystifying. These are just a few of the words that crept into my mind as I wrestled with what should have been a fairly straightforward game of driving, combat, and resource management.

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My into to gaming was the video-games at a local pool-room-cum-cafe. There was nothing that could beat Galaga which came after Asteroids and Space war. C64 made it possible to play this generation at home without coins!!!

zork was one of the most influential games for me as well (actually it was adventure that we played when connected to my fathers university mainframe that really started it). before there was any graphics.

I'm with Carol in showing my age. When I was teen and Pong came out, it was incredible; couldn't believe you could interact with a TV that way. (We didn't have to money to buy one, but the lone rich kid in the neighborhood did.) Later on, when I was too old for it all, it was Ms. Pac Man, of course! I don't have time for games now, but I DO tape and watch X-Play every day.

When I was young we didn't have computers! I can still remember the first available pocket calculators which seemed pretty whizzo at the time - even if you did have to learn RPN to use them

Sorry for my ignorance, what's RPN?

Favorite computer games? Too many!

Our first computer we had was for my father's business. The monitors were just green and black. I don't even remember what kind of computers they were. There was a fun game on it called Ladder. Then my brother got a TI-87 or something computer and a book for programming games in BASIC. Plus we had the cartridge addons. The game I remember most from it was called Tunnels of Doom.

We eventually got two computers and networked them so we could play games multiplayer. I spent countless hours fragging my friend or brother in FPSs and destroying or being destroyed in RTSs.

I used to really like the competitive games but nowadays I prefer cooperative over competitive. Probably because I spent so much time on those games that I could beat my brother and friend almost everytime--and by a landslide--that they got sick of playing with me.

That's all I can think of right now. There's actually another but I can't remember the name of it. Something like Fantasy Empires.

I also had a fun time with an Intellivision and a Nintendo but those aren't computer games so I won't go into the long lists for those systems.

EDIT: Fixed name and added link for Tunnels of Doom. (I previously referred to it as Dungeons of Doom.)

Yipes, let's play "I'm an old fart"...All the old games I remember were Apple II games. Some platforms, a couple interactives (like Zork, etc.) here's a list of all I remember, but there were probably a few more...

Zork I & IIApple PanicLode RunnerLSLLLL (admits blushingly... and only once...) but first prize goes to...Robot Odyssey (which lives on as DROIDQUEST!!)